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Instructions

Round 1: Write down your response to the question. (3 minutes)
Round 2: Silently read responses that are shared about cultivating and sharing genius. (2 minutes)
Round 3: For responses that resonate with you and your experiences as an educator, tap on the heart. (1 minute)
Round 4: Welcome you to respond to at least 1 person (2 minutes)

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teach, integrate, and support growth mindset, honor diversity and what each person brings to the table, more opportunities for choice, create opportunities for expression beyond the self and the classroom, continue to meet students where they are and shift focus from where we need to go to what they need right now

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I will give them options and choices when demonstrating their learning.  For example, students can select or choose the sources they are learning from.  They can demonstrate their learning in different in different ways if the first method wasn't working for them

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Providing choices and different ways for students to express themselves and demonstrate their skills, practicing empathy and respect to students' cultural diversity, facilitating problem-based learning/maker mindset

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Providing choices and different ways for students to express themselves and demonstrate their skills, practicing empathy and respect to students' cultural diversity, facilitating problem-based learning/maker mindset

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I teach in an elementary makerspace. One part of the space that students don't often get to use (due to time and other pressures) is the opportunity to free create without deadlines. I am working to allow them to take time to create their own item - without any constraints except for the tools they can access.

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With a social justice-oriented lens critiquing and adding depth and diverse histories to otherwise cookie-cutter explanations of our American, Californian and local past.

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With a social justice-oriented lens critiquing and adding depth and diverse histories to otherwise cookie-cutter explanations of our American, Californian and local past.

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Teach a variety of authors who can offer different perspectives and therefore allowing them to experience, "Mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors". Having them create and share their own work, which will also offer new and different perspectives.

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Meeting our genius halfway on where they are at,
listening, taking time to get to know them, their
needs and where they are coming from. Use the
skills they already have and start cultivating and
nurture from there. Giving them the opportunity and
tools to actively participate and be part of their
learning process. And at the end acknowledging
their efforts, and their progress. Celebrate no matter
what.

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By centering all the learning on my students' needs and backgrounds. I remember when I first started to do a diversity audit in my English class and students noticed the trend and then we made changes to center their experience. I need to do better about celebrating my students' genius within their learning community and in a way that is valuable for them and not just for the school.

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redesign your teaching/learning goals - understand learners identity, and honor their efforts - appreciate the efforts and not just their outcomes

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Give the students tools, a goal, and the freedom to create what makes sense to them.  I will provide a variety of learning opportunities.  To work with students at their level with their assets.  We will share and celebrate work and create a culture of collaboration, creativity and achievement.

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The first step of creating any community is to build relationships. Helping my learners find commonalities that bond them together will make celebrating their differences an organic and beautiful process that unfolds like a blooming rose. We will be centered on our common goals; we will empower with multiple opportunities to express our individual points-of-view; we will lift each other up with support and encouraging words and actions.

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Empower - need tools (i.e. tech.)

Uplift - encouragement, self-confidence, affirmation of feelings and ideas

Cultivate - need consistency; message to truly be internalized; not on the surface

Celebrate - highlight; provide opportunities to express their making, allowing for accomplishments

Learning Communities - our community that needs healing & connecting to one another; embrace the struggle & provide opportunities to connect through their journey; safe space for all; inclusiveness

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I commit to uplifting student voices and allowing them to tell their origin stories in their own way and provide a wider audience for them.

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I will create projects that allow the students to pursue their passion, allowing their strengths and personal backgrounds to shine through in their work. I will allow the tools and gadgets I teach will be equitable to all my students and easy to access.

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I want to front load the beginning of the year with opportunities for kids to tell who they are through assignments. I will start with lower risk ways like pronouncing names and increase risk throughout the year.

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Take the Time to Listen and Build Relationships

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Take the Time to Listen and Build Relationships

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Letting educators know I want to hear them - I'm listening. Take their words and make it action. Encourage them to fly, enhance their teaching by using "Yes, And". Then celebrate going forward.